Protect Democracy and the Campaign Legal Center (CLC) urge the FEC to use its existing authority to clarify that use of AI in campaign communications to deceive or defraud voters is illegal.
October 17, 2023
The goal of this afterword is to draw out the essential lessons for those pursuing solutions to American political parties’ current challenges.
October 17, 2023
This report exists because political scientists are alarmed by the real possibility of serious democratic backsliding in the United States.
October 17, 2023
We outline two seemingly contradictory observations about political parties in the United States: Parties are essential to democracy, but U.S. institutions are often hostile to them.
October 17, 2023
Poland’s surprise opposition victory reveals the most important pro-democracy maxim: don’t let the coalition fracture.
October 17, 2023
In this chapter, we give some ‘pros and cons’ of three PR forms: mixed-member proportional, single transferable vote, and open-list proportional.
October 16, 2023
The American party system has developed in a context which traditionally includes partisan primaries, categorical ballots and plurality winners chosen in single-round elections.
October 16, 2023
In addressing how factions and organizational issues within and across the parties influence whether parties and leaders behave responsibly, this chapter assesses party and actor incentives.
October 15, 2023
Change is less about new ideas and more about new considerations of communities with longstanding investments in the work of liberation.
October 13, 2023
This chapter lays out a description of the current political motivations driving voters, the biases they bring with them, and how the two parties are playing to different audiences.
October 13, 2023